From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M7n0f-0004KJ-DW for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 23 May 2009 08:55:17 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C41B7E02AB; Sat, 23 May 2009 08:55:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f165.google.com (mail-ew0-f165.google.com [209.85.219.165]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73407E02AB for ; Sat, 23 May 2009 08:55:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy9 with SMTP id 9so2162700ewy.34 for ; Sat, 23 May 2009 01:55:15 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=DnXvzyYnnER0o17fg3F9pghNTRXHVP7qe6+QdVhMedU=; b=ws1djTmAFlM8igZI6qGBVH/IJBwQ8TxR/y0mkXS1ZqsaAB8vsKL4rXLzcBXf4sMhrq 8AprOZ8BHStKiRS6YgZnSSd/FVxe8pDVkGNjWnrCKFSV04EdvgQ7q+jTayOs9OWquLJD uWX5BRp6gIQyuxmXQ0fl//20fCfgPsRcXIPdQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=wUIa8lggRWYiX96Srndr0NsXCNxN8zTjH1HBXCbThQQJxtGt2DnaWQQfOZSgFPA5ZF Xq7ovK6hphQt9ovVJm+9RKekAU04KH30k0FEgXaE0xW1QVBdeD+Rf1zG8j6o5Oac4Mqn C2i3xao6n4mfHyUn7uj6/BKpRomJroxeh3KeU= Received: by 10.210.130.14 with SMTP id c14mr947141ebd.65.1243068914961; Sat, 23 May 2009 01:55:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lappy.study (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 24sm1153910eyx.13.2009.05.23.01.55.12 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 23 May 2009 01:55:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: disable syanptics pad Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 09:55:10 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <58965d8a0905211139r71da0f0l3a7ab25de5ca4d79@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2454322.I0Bfo4buNe"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200905230955.21185.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: b6953b34-3829-4fc1-a01a-b0dfc933c911 X-Archives-Hash: ce700ea09a88d24b25d73371a511140b --nextPart2454322.I0Bfo4buNe Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Friday 22 May 2009, james wrote: > Paul Hartman gmail.com> writes: > > I think you need to set corepointer=3D0 in the FDI file or something > > similar to that. Or if you're using xorg.conf point it to a specific > > mouse instead of /dev/mice or whatever the catch-all mouse device is. > > May be able to get rid of it "even more" with udev rules or something > > to just make it go away. Sorry I don't have specific examples, I'm on > > a windows machine right now. > > I'm sure your information is good. But, I need specifics.... This is from my /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-xinput-configuration.fdi: =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D =20 =20 =20 synaptics=20 true true true 1 1 =20 =20 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Try modifying the above with something like: 0 You may want to try my fdi as is first. It may just work without problems = in=20 your setup and the touchpad will become useful again. Note: This is on a system which does not use xorg.conf anymore. I am not s= ure=20 how things get parsed by xorg when both an fdi and a xorg.conf are present. HTH. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart2454322.I0Bfo4buNe Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkoXufkACgkQVTDTR3kpaLaYkgCeIulD5TSTG4AzGgsASj1oXS0j //EAnRg+12PrWyiL9x570epdDAA+ynDB =kjz1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2454322.I0Bfo4buNe--